The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05

under the leadership of Carlisle and Ken
lucky. to do something for the country. Let
us still those things about which
we may not all agree. Let
us find some common ground to
stand upon that shall be national ground.
lApplause. Let us remember that we are
one wing and part of great national party
that stretches from the bleak shores of
Massachusetts, to where the placid waters of
the blue Pacific kiss the golden shores of
California, and let us go higher than the
provlnclaIlsln of single State or neighbor-
hood. Prolonged applause.l
PRAISING THE PRESIDENT
About one other matter | want to ex-
press one thought. 1t may be that Grover
Cleveland is not all that every Democrat
would have him to be, but he is better than
the best Republican who ever lived. LAD
plause.J He may not be our choice
among the Democrats of America,
but he is better than any man the
Republican party can nominate,
and | am for him as the best we can do, and
l want to say for him, being under no obi
cations to him other than that which every
other good citizen is under. having no
grievance against The administration, but as
free man and a representative of freemen
only willing TO speak my honest sentiments,
that since America has had Presidents she
has not had more honest, brave or cleaner
than Grover Cleveland" Cheers
Messrs. Beck and Carlisle also spoke at a
late hour tonight
Mr.. Carlisle was made permanent chair
man, and just before midnight Gen. Buck
ner was nominated for Governor by accla-
nation. The nominating speech was made
by w. s. Ellis, of Owensboro 1t was
seconded by Mathews Adams, of Knox.
Seeing the convention was almost
unanimous for Gen. Buchner, the
other candidates, Senator j. w. Harris,
Col. G. A. G. Holt ami Senator Berry, with
Grew from the race in appropriate speeches
Gen. Buckner was sent for and escorted to
the stand, where he made rousing speech
that was applauded throughout.
The platform and resolutions were then
read.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform was written ard drawn up
by Hons. John G. Carlisle and Henry Wat
terson. That part which is of national in
terest and was adopted is as follows:
We declare our confidence in the integrity and
conscientious devotion to duty of President
Grover Cleveland, and congratulate the country
and party upon the occasion of a Democratic
administration. national, economic and clean,
and we pafticularly applaud the President for
the fidelity and courage with which he has pro-
tected the Treasury from pillage by his exercise
OF the veto power
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
We favor honest civil service reform, by which
we mean enforcement of the faithful perform
ance by persons appointed to Office of all public
duties entrusted to them, and to this end as
well as to the maintenance of the spirit of our
representative form of government, we demand
the strlctest measures of party RESPONSE
bility, and are opposed to substitution in
room of this of life tenure, a civil pension list
and all other appendages of the Bureaucratic
system foreign TO the genius of our institutions
and people.
We declare the honest money OF the constitu-
ton good enough for the people as expressed in
gold and silver and paper convertible into coin
on demand, and are opposed to all slmptuary
laws.
We contend that there are already on our
statute books sufficient general laws having
local application to protect the public morals
without infringing on private rights.
- SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND.
We sympathize most earnestly with the people
of Ireland in their fight for local self-govern-
ment, and we unite with the friends of liberal
progress in all parts of the world in denouncing
the coercion measures now pending in the
British Parliament as monstrous crime against
a brave, generous and long suffering people as
obstruction TO human freedom and abhorrent to
the spirit of liberty in every land.
We view with alarm the growing tendency
among certain classes of citizens to seek the aid
and bounty of the general government, and as
an incident of this tendency to enlarge the
powers granted and to multiply powers never
contemplated by the constitution, and we re
asSart the honored Democratic doctrine that all
poAs~r not delegated to the United States are
reserved to the States respectively or to the
people.
\ WAR TARIFFS DENOUNCED.
\ We denounce the present war tariff, laid to
coSfuse as well as to harrass the people, as a
masterpiece of injustice, inequality and false
pretense. 1t has been maintained by selfish
and false theory of protection, which robs many
to enrich a few. 1t has piled up in the national
Treasury surplus which menaces the pros
perity of all classes and every industry.
We demand an immediate reduction OF this
war tariff. not merely as an act
of redress to the people promised
by all parties, but the only safe and just
method of reducing the surplus, and in making
such reduction we demand further that taxes
shall first be abolished or lowered upon the
necessities of life; and finally, we reassert the
constitutional and Democratic doctrine, that
taxes should be levied exclusively for public
purposes and limited to the requirements of the
government, economically administered.
Mr. Taulbec objected to the clause relating
to President Clevelands veto of the pension
BILL and pending discussion, the convention
adjourned till tomorrow morning at 0
o'clock.